{"id":313898,"date":"2026-05-13T17:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313898\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:02:08","slug":"berkeley-coffee-shops-sightglass-opens-for-drinks-and-breakfast-by-the-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313898\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkeley coffee shops: Sightglass opens for drinks and breakfast by the university"},"content":{"rendered":"

Berkeley\u2019s workforce and student masses just got a new place to recaffeinate<\/a> \u2013 Sightglass Coffee, which opened in May right across from the UC Berkeley campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sightglass is a San Francisco-born company<\/a> known for small-batch roasting and sourcing green coffee beans from distinctive global producers. The Berkeley<\/a> cafe is its first opening in the Bay Area in almost a decade. It\u2019s located at 2169 University Ave., on the bottom floor of the university\u2019s Helen Diller Anchor House, in a roomy space designed by local Lundberg Design architects.<\/p>\n

Sightglass started in 2009 inside a World War I-era warehouse in San Francisco\u2019s SoMa district. It now runs several shops in the Bay Area and one in West Hollywood. The company\u2019s name comes from the \u201cviewing window on our vintage PROBAT coffee roaster that exposes the complex and delicate process of roasting coffee,\u201d its website explains.<\/p>\n

\"SightglassSightglass Coffee opened a new cafe in May 2026 in downtown Berkeley. (Photo courtesy of Sightglass Coffee)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cCoffee is a seasonal fruit and we source it directly from origin in freshly harvested lots,\u201d the website continues. \u201cWe practice small production methods that allow us to scrutinize and perfect our processes. Attaining a perfect roast is an intuition, a smell, a sound, a slight change in color \u2014 it\u2019s about careful attention to detail that comes through in every cup.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coffee ranges from $4.75 for a Quick Cup \u2014 add two bucks to get it from a Hario V60 pour-over apparatus \u2014 to $8.25 for an Iced Brown Butter Miso Caramel Latte With Cold Foam. In between, there\u2019s a mocha made with Dandelion Chocolate, flat whites, organic teas, espresso tonics and a Vanilla Paste Latte (one of the auspicious times it\u2019s good to eat paste). There are also flavored cold coffees on tap and a rotating seasonal beverage, which, as of press time, was a Cookie Butter Latte.<\/p>\n

The food menu has salads and breakfast sandwiches, paninis and burritos ($11-$15), as well as a lone cold turkey club. Pastries come from Oakland\u2019s Sunday Bakeshop<\/a>, specializing in Asian-fusion treats, and doughnuts and certain hot foods<\/a> are from George\u2019s Donuts & Merriment<\/a> in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

For its inaugural brew, the cafe will be pouring a regenerative organic coffee called Grizzly Peak Blend, with some of the proceeds going to Berkeley\u2019s Edible Schoolyard Project.<\/p>\n

Details: Open 6:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays and 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays at 2169 University Ave., Berkeley; sightglasscoffee.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berkeley\u2019s workforce and student masses just got a new place to recaffeinate \u2013 Sightglass Coffee, which opened in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-313898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}